Re: SAX: Method Name Collisions

David Megginson (ak117@freenet.carleton.ca)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:22:26 -0400


Tim Bray writes:

> At 10:12 AM 13/04/98 -0400, David Megginson wrote:
> >The first, "getAttributeListLength", is the ugliest. It is simple to
> >avoid this problem by creating a separate class for SAXAttributeList,
> >rather than implementing it in the main driver -- what does everyone
> >else think about this question?
>
> Well, yes. But I thought you were dead set against having any
> extra classes? -Tim

If I'd stuck with this, there would still be only two interfaces in
SAX: the parser and the handler.

What I'm talking about here, though, is an extra class in a specific
parser's implementation. Most SAX parsers will implement SAXParser,
SAXAttributeList, and SAXLocator with the same class; they are free,
however, to use a separate class for each if method-name collisions
become a problem.

All the best,

David

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